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TIL, with a running start, Usain Bolt ran a 100m in 8.70 seconds in 2009

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4X6Lb Around 74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was the biggest volcanic eruption of the last 2 million years, unleashing 2,800 cubic kilometres of magma. That’s enough to bury the entire United States in a foot-thick layer of ash & rock.
JaaV TIL seven million dependents “disappeared” in 1987 when the IRS started requiring social security numbers for dependents.
NwkM TIL that it is a misdemeanor to kill Sasquatch in Skamania county in the state of Washington.
N7B61 TIL that two men in Brazil stole a teletherapy unit from an abandoned hospital and disassembled it in home. The two suffered vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness and unexplained skin burns. They sold the unit in junkyard and later found that it contains a radioactive material, exposing 249 others.
ADeGg TIL: The average cloud weighs more than a blue whale. According to scientists, the weight of the average cumulus cloud is 1.1 million pounds